Elaine Shannon, Editor-in-Chief.
Elaine is a former correspondent for TIME and Newsweek magazines, a Neiman fellow at Harvard University and author of three books about terrorism, espionage and the global drug trade. She and husband Dan Morgan, a Washington Post correspondent, hike, ski, kayak and serve as pit crew for son Shannon Morgan, a Colorado College environmental science student and cycle racer.
FDA Under Pressure for BPA Food Safety Rules
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, FDA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on 11 5th, 2009 | No Comments
As a key deadline approaches, scientists and environmental health advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rein in food contamination from bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic component and synthetic estrogen detected in the bodies of 93 percent of Americans tested.
During...
New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation, Tumors
Two new international studies implicating cell phone in some forms of brain tumors are deepening scientists’ worries about the long-term consequences of human exposure to cell phone radiation, especially among children and heavy cell phone users.
An Australian-European research team reported in the...
Curbing the Erin Brockovich Chemical
Back in 1991, a young paralegal poking around in some real estate files noticed a peculiar concentration of cancer in tiny Hinkley, CA.
The rest was almost history.
Erin Brockovich’s find led to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, whose compressor station, California state investigators determined ,...
SIGG: It’s not easy not being green
SIGG Switzerland AG’s roster of stars who tote and tout its aluminum-and-synthetic water bottles reads like a A-list party at Cannes.
Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson, Zac Effron , Lucy Liu, Tobey Maguire, Cindy Crawford, Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba – and more.
How long will the company hang...
Can SIGG Salvage Its Name Post-BPA?
Last week, Steve Wasik, chief executive officer of SIGG Switzerland, made an astonishing admission: the company’s aluminum water bottles manufactured before August 2008 had been made with epoxy resin that contains bisphenol A (BPA).
“The primary reason that I am writing this letter today is...
Groundhog Day at FDA
Posted by Elaine Shannon in BPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on 08 25th, 2009 | No Comments
Remember the 1993 film Groundhog Day? Bill Murray’s TV weatherman found himself trapped in a time warp in a turgid little town and despaired, “What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?”
That locked-in-place feeling...
EPA may crack down on rocket fuel in drinking water
Posted by Elaine Shannon in EPA, Featured Articles, Government (In)Action on 08 6th, 2009 | No Comments
Fulfilling a confirmation pledge, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa P. Jackson is revisiting the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate rocket fuel pollution in the nation’s drinking water.
Jackson’s move, announced Wednesday, is being welcomed by the environmental community and...
Columbia: Air Pollutants Lower NYC Kids’ IQs
A landmark study by Columbia University’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) has found that New York City children exposed in the womb to urban air pollutants score significantly lower on intelligence tests than children of mothers who breathed cleaner air during their pregnancies.
The...
Eco-chic? Or cheap chic?
Posted by Elaine Shannon in Featured Articles, Government (In)Action, Pollution in People on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Channel Cameron Diaz, Vogue’s “Queen of Green?” Scour Martha Stewart for money-saving wedding tips?
Tough call, and now you don’t have to make it.
Not, at least, when you’re picking up a bottle of water for the drink-holder of your Prius/Mini/Trek Madone.
Environmental...
FDA Still Slow-walking Sunscreen Regs
EWG’s 2009 Sunscreen Guide finds some bright spots in the sun scene:
The number of sunscreens containing UVA filters doubled, to 70 percent of 2,000-plus products analyzed.
The number of sunscreens using oxybenzone, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, dropped by 19 percent.
Two of five sunscreens on...
